Chapter 18
When I awoke, it was already looking like it was going to be a crappy day. The sky outside was gray and clearly going to open up soon, but that wasn't going to stop me. We needed to be reunited with our group, today.
I got up and wrapped myself in the spare coat that I'd slept on last night then grabbed my bag and a soda bottle full of water before heading out with Lucic through the back. I left the door unlocked just in case, my worst fear, in case we didn't find them today. I grabbed a crowbar that I'd found laying around from opening deliveries just before leaving.
We were back at the ghostly remains of my most recent home in forty five minutes. Killing a few walkers on the way had slowed us down, but we made it back and took the same spot we had sat in yesterday.
Hours flew past along with the cold wind and soon to be freezing rain. We huddled under the cover of a tree and waited it out. The rain stopped and we fed on a can of beans then continued on waiting. Hours and hours, we waited until the darkness started to come to the skies again. There had been no sign of life. We were still alone and I couldn't have been more afraid.
After a long, boring, depressing day, we headed back to the store where there was nothing than a replay of the night before. We fed from another set of cans, then I washed out Lucic's burn and re-wrapped it. We laid down in our makeshift beds and tried to sleep.
I stared at the ceiling of the store for what had to have been hours. I missed them so much and this loneliness was becoming a torture within itself. The fear of being alone was churning my dinner inside of me and I was sure that soon enough I was going to be sick.
"Don't lose hope." I whispered to myself. "They'll come back tomorrow. He'll come back." I promised myself. He had to come back. But as much promising as I did to myself, nothing could shake the fear building up every moment that we were alone.
